Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [adj] [unc] cent " in BNC.
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| 1 | For external use a moisture content of perhaps 20 per cent may be suitable , for an unheated building about 15 per cent , and for a steam-heated environment about 8 or 10 per cent . |
| 2 | Compared with 100 years ago marriage is now an almost universal experience i.e. 92 per cent of women and 86 per cent of men marry ( Rimmer , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | If the 30 km/h is achieved through third gear defensive driving , the reduction in hydrocarbon emission is as high as 20 per cent and that for nitrous oxide nearly 50 per cent . |
| 4 | Whereas among the Bolsheviks in this early period about 80 per cent were Great Russians , the proportion among the Mensheviks was only a third . |
| 5 | The reporting rate , and the detection rate , for murder is over 90 per cent , and for serious assault over 80 per cent . |
| 6 | Astonishingly he defended his policy of imposing sky high 36.3 per cent rates , saying it had cut unauthorised loans by almost a third in a year . |
| 7 | In previous years about 20 per cent . |
| 8 | For example , when price inflation was running at about 12 per cent last summer , buying on HP would have meant monthly payments about 10 per cent higher than those needed to save up and buy the same thing later . |
| 9 | The details of leaning recommendations may vary in different makes and models of engine , but for Lycomings , for example , the rule is to use rich mixture at all times above 75 per cent but lean whenever at constant power below 75 per cent . |
| 10 | The most dismal performance is by Pravda , the official party paper , of whose regular readers only 36 per cent had renewed their subscriptions . |
| 11 | However , in autumn until late December about 70 per cent . |
| 12 | For the 12 months ending 31 December , 1992 , the Edinburgh-based newspaper publisher and printer reported pre-tax profits almost 32 per cent higher than 1991 's at nearly £9.8 million , on a turnover lifted by 15.8 per cent to £71.7 million . |
| 13 | In the pre-campaign week only 56 per cent had seen a recent opinion poll but this rose to 72 per cent in the first fortnight of the campaign and 77 per cent in the second . |
| 14 | Ministers were also discussing a much more radical reform of the CAP which Agriculture Commissioner Ray MacSharry hoped would rectify the current situation where 80 per cent of agricultural support in the EC went to 20 per cent of its farmers . |
| 15 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |
| 16 | In the initial review about 70 per cent of the LEAs responded with information , as did nearly all GCE and CSE Boards , the City and Guilds and the RSA . |
| 17 | Under the Chancellor 's proposals , the reserves will be redesignated as tax deductible reserves where 50 per cent of profits from underwriting business may be deposited tax free . |
| 18 | In the northern temperate zone the values are about 50 per cent higher than these estimates , and in the southern temperate zone about 50 per cent lower . |
| 19 | Northern NGOs pointed out that while Brazil had declared protected zones over 9 per cent of its forests , in Canada the equivalent was 3 per cent . |
| 20 | Of the 2802 pollution incidents from the industrial sources only four per cent were classified as major . |
| 21 | Northern offshore spotted dolphins were around 40–50 per cent of their original numbers , and common dolphins about 60 per cent . |
| 22 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 23 | Overall , the swing in our panel over the year leading up to the 1987 election was 5 per cent , but among persistent readers of Tory tabloids it was 12 per cent , and among persistent readers of Labour tabloids only 1 per cent . |
| 24 | In some courts applications were successful in 96 per cent of cases ; in other courts only 9 per cent were successful . |
| 25 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 26 | Husbands or wives were seen about 36 per cent of the 639 , other relatives about 43 per cent , friends or neighbours about 10 per cent , staff of institutions about 10 per cent and other officials about one per cent . |
| 27 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Even so , by the beginning of the new century only six per cent of the ministers newly appointed to a church were without some form of higher education . |
| 29 | However , according to one diplomatic source only 38 per cent of FAPLA troops had been officially demobilized . |
| 30 | The planned figure at the start of the year was about £30 million , making the true shortfall around 25 per cent . |